> > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the Old > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > Thanks > Patti Sorry Patty but you are probably going to be out of luck--in about 1919, the man who was acting as the Cemetery Sexton was fired from his job and in retaliation BURNED the records for the cemetery...if you have the index printed by the HCGS, you have about the only records there are. The City Clerk has some records forward from Feb 1919 in a card file and on a list (my great grandmother who died in Mar 1919 was 3rd on this list). There really isn't much hope for records prior to that. If you have the death dates for the people you are looking for you might try some of the funeral homes for funeral records but that's about your only hopes. I've spent 3 trips to Kewanee trying to locate the graves of my great grandparents. Neither the city nor the funeral home recorded the lot number of my great grandmother's grave and the index says my great grandfather's stone was illegible (then how do they know it was him) so fundamentally the City of Kewanee has LOST my great grandparents except to be able to tell me they are "somewhere in the cemetery".

what does your index show? I have the book also and it contains the name of the cemetery, the person, when born and where born. Let me know. cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Martin-Rott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Re: ILHENRY-D Digest V00 #150 > > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the Old > > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > > > Thanks > > Patti > > Sorry Patty but you are probably going to be out of luck--in about 1919, the man > who was acting as the Cemetery Sexton was fired from his job and in retaliation > BURNED the records for the cemetery...if you have the index printed by the HCGS, > you have about the only records there are. The City Clerk has some records > forward from Feb 1919 in a card file and on a list (my great grandmother who died > in Mar 1919 was 3rd on this list). There really isn't much hope for records prior > to that. If you have the death dates for the people you are looking for you might > try some of the funeral homes for funeral records but that's about your only > hopes. > > I've spent 3 trips to Kewanee trying to locate the graves of my great > grandparents. Neither the city nor the funeral home recorded the lot number of my > great grandmother's grave and the index says my great grandfather's stone was > illegible (then how do they know it was him) so fundamentally the City of Kewanee > has LOST my great grandparents except to be able to tell me they are "somewhere in > the cemetery". > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Submit your Henry County obits, wills and other transcribed > data to [email protected] for inclusion in the USGenWeb Project Archives > for inclusion in the ILGenWeb Project Archives!! >